Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-01-14
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

lnclu'lnG luStlnaSttrS ana every
other branch OF the service, there are
332 federal otlicchuldcrs III Washing
ton Territory.
Captain Bcecher's pay rs special
agent of the Treasury Department is
~ per day and ~ additional per day
for travelling expenses.
The Seattle Times SAYS that Doc
Curtis, one of the leading capitalists
of Tacoma, has been looking around
Seattle with the idea Of buying it.
Martha James, aged 10 years, has
been sent to the deaf and dumb school
at Vancouver, from Sumner. She lost
| her hearing during hahvh"od from fits
The gnrlcnrr> on WhIbv Island
are dining on lettuce, and L.n'in.
, i'ut.:ti,s. While cur I.sr,1n .i.tn;i>
IIr picking over the lroHrn lota,ucS
i'll their cellars.
Two wholesale liquor houses, fifty
seven saloons and eighteen beer halls,
in Seattle, made applications for IL
cense under the $500 license law,
which went into effect January 1st
Mcssrs Pcttihonc & Oglc, Of What
com, viii start shinylc factory in
connecting with their portable saw
mill. y portion of their machinery
went t" Whatcom 10y the Mcrpin, ON
her last Tip.
1t Is rumOrcd that some En.l.. h
gentlemen alc prospecting ut Il ONT
twenty miles from Tacoma, on the
Cascades Branch Of TIE Northern Pa
ciiic Railroad, with Il view of erecting
Il blast furnace.
There is no suspension of track-lay
ing on the Cascades on account of
the snow that always exists at high al
titudes at this time of the year. 1t will
cost more, but be ready for traffic soon
as the season opens.
At the point where the Cascade diy-
ision will cross the Columbia the en-
! gincers have been prospecting the bed
OF the river for Il solid foundation for
piers. They bored down cighty-tivc
feet without finding bedrock. A
stratum of clay forms the rivcr-bcd.
The Coroner at Prosscr, w. T., held
an inquest over the body of the man
found concealed in pile OF sage
brush near Bed Rock Springs, and the
conclusion reached was that some man
from whom the deceased had stolen Il
horse had not thought Il trial ncccs-
sary. 1t is supposed that the muir
dered man was sitting by his camp
fire and on being shot fell forward into
it, as his hands and clothes were
burned. There is no clue to his iden-
tity.
The Northern Pacific Land Com
pany is about to erect splendid big
structure on the edge of the cliff
north OF the lIalstead house, at Ia
coma, Tor the Offices Of the land and
railroad company. The offices in
Portland connected with the Northern
Pacific Railroad and Land Company,
with the exception of that of General
Western Passenger Agent Charlton,
will be moved to that city on the lst
of April. SO says the Lcdger, and let
us hope that somebody hasn't been
April fooling" it.
The h. of L., district Assembly Il5,
met on Saturday last i'll Puyallup and
transacted business of the order for
Western Washington. There were rep
resentatives from all the assemblies
present. The reports indicated that
the order is in Il fiourishing condition,
especially in Tacoma All the state
ments were better than had been gen
orally anticipated. Twenty more as
sembles i'll Western Washington are
now ready to he organized. Six organ
izers are to be put into the field i'm
mediately.
The articles of incorporation of the
Tacoma Smelling and Refining Works
have been filed. The capital stock is
$2500O0, consisting of $500 shares,
at one hundred dollars per share.
The trustees for the first six
months are John W. Sprague, Charles
p Mastcrson, Walter j. Thompson,
Washington Libby, of Chicago, and
John ID. Bullock, of Wisconsin. Mr..
Libby is Il Chicago capitalist with sew
eral million, and Mr.. Bullock has been
II partner of Mr.. Selovcr, the inaugur-
alter of the company, for several years.
The shipment of the l 100000 feet
of lumber order from the Tacoma Mill
company by rail to Denver, Col, has
been greatly delayed on account OF the
non-arrival of flat cars from the
Union Pacific line. Superintendent
Atkinson says that he has already re-
ceived orders from Eastern Washing
ton Territory for several hundred
thousand feet of lumber, and that rs
the Cascade division of the Northern
Pacific road is completed they expect
to ship large quantities of lumber from
Tacoma to that section of the coun-
try. Demands and applications are
now being received for Il large amount
so that it may be ready upon complet-
ton of the road.
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